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Marc and Jeanne Malnati Family Fdn Inc at a glance

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Marc and Jeanne Malnati Family Fdn Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
59
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$268k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.6MHuman Services$1.2MEducation$943kYouth Development$917kPublic Benefit$749kCommunity Improvement$748kReligion$628kEmployment$583kOther$0
02FY2025 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $372k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $268k
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$451k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$267,500
THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST$200,000
GARFIELD PARK RITE TO WELLNESS$100,520
COLLABORACTION$100,000
UNITED WAY OF METRO CHICAGO$90,000
BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES$65,000
THE SALVATION ARMY CHICAGO$65,000
ONE ON ONE$60,000
ONEGOAL$51,800
NATIONAL LOUIS UNIVERSITY$50,000
INSTITUTE FOR NONVIOLENCE CHICAGO$50,000
BY THE HAND CLUB FOR KIDS$50,000
BRAVEN$50,000
TOGETHER CHICAGO$50,000
METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $837k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EVERFREE: $5k → 10%CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION: $10k → 16%CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION: $10k → 16%CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION: $10k → 16%CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION: $10k → 16%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%AFTERMATH: $5k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNIN: $101k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $5k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $5k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $3k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $3k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $2k → 14%FIGUEROA WU FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%PILSEN FOOD PANTRY: $126 → 14%HONEYCOMB PROJECT: $3k → 14%THE GROWING SEASON: $50k → 14%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES: $5k → 14%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES: $3k → 14%GARFIELD PARK RITE TO WELLNESS: $101k → 14%GARFIELD PARK RITE TO WELLNESS: $100k → 14%UCAN: $30k → 14%UCAN: $30k → 14%UCAN: $30k → 14%UCAN: $30k → 14%UCAN: $25k → 14%WELL RESOURCE CENTER NFP: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
HI
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.6M · 72 repeat orgs$710k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

72 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
45

Total granted

$9.6M
$599k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+7%

Still filing today

63%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    TOGETHER CHICAGO INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $355k · revenue ×19
  • BU
    BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $326k · revenue +139%
  • OO
    ONE ON ONE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $295k · revenue +357%

Funded once

  • CR
    Carole Robertson Center for Learning
    one grant, 2024 · $101k · revenue -3%
  • NH
    NEW HOPE COMMUNITY CAPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +424%
  • SF
    SELAH FREEDOM INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +7%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
2
Thrive Chicago Nfp

Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.

Human Services
3
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
4
Arise Chicago

Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.

Employment
5
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
6
Chicago United

To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.

Philanthropy
7
Live Free Chicago

Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…

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8
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
9
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
10
Chicago Refugee Coalition

The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.

Human Services
11
Xchange Chicago Inc

To realize a more equitable and inclusive economy by advancing innovative workforce solutions that equip local residents with the skills and resources to access high-growth employment opportunities in tech and other rapidly growing fields…

Employment
12
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Together Chicago Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hecktman Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 80 of the 133 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/80
Grantees still filing
53/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $2,215,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHeartland Alliance: $650,000 · OtherHeartland AllianceTHE SALVATION ARMY CHICAGO: $449,792 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY CHICAGOBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $326,394 · OtherBy The Hand Club For Kids: $250,000 · OtherONE ON ONE: $295,000 · Other+79 more: $2,316,829 · Other+79 moreThe Chicago Community Trust: $610,000 · PhilanthropyThe Chicago C…UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $436,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…INHERENTANCE: $200,000 · PhilanthropyINHERENTANCEHOPEWELL FUND: $50,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $43,168 · PhilanthropyMetropolitan Family Services: $275,000 · Human ServicesMetropoli…Garfield Park Rite to Wellness: $200,520 · Human ServicesGarfield …UCAN: $145,000 · Human ServicesUCANCarole Robertson Center for Learning: $101,300 · Human ServicesCarole Ro…SELAH FREEDOM INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesSELAH FRE…THE GROWING SEASON INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE GROWI…Christian Service Mission Inc: $40,000 · Human Services+7 more: $49,927 · Human Services+7 moreACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL: $260,000 · EducationACADEMY F…National Louis University: $200,000 · EducationNational …THE FIELD SCHOOL: $150,000 · EducationTHE FIELD…Austin Coming Together: $116,000 · EducationAustin Co…MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $95,000 · EducationMIKVA CHA…+5 more: $87,000 · Education+5 moreBRAVEN INC: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentONEGOAL: $192,127 · Youth DevelopmentCHICAGO SURVIVORS INC: $150,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $23,000 · Youth DevelopmentTOGETHER CHICAGO INC: $355,000 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO CARES INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementTeamwork Englewood Inc: $17,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $15,953 · Community ImprovementCOLLABORACTION THEATRE CO: $270,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FIREHOUSE DREAM INC: $50,107 · Arts & CultureEDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $10,504 · Arts & Culture
Other$6,503,015Philanthropy$1,339,168Human Services$911,747Education$908,000Youth Development$565,127Community Improvement$487,953Arts & Culture$360,611

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Chicago Community Trust: $610,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $436,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTOGETHER CHICAGO INC: $355,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $326,394 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetONE ON ONE: $295,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $275,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLABORACTION THEATRE CO: $270,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL: $260,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBy The Hand Club For Kids: $250,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGarfield Park Rite to Wellness: $200,520 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetNational Louis University: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRAVEN INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetINHERENTANCE: $200,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetONEGOAL: $192,127 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Foundation United: $162,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetTHE FIELD SCHOOL: $150,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCHICAGO SURVIVORS INC: $150,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetUCAN: $145,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInstitute for Nonviolence Chicago: $131,947 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetElyssas Mission NFP: $130,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $120,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAustin Coming Together: $116,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCarole Robertson Center for Learning: $101,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO CARES INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetNEW HOPE COMMUNITY CAPITAL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRISE International: $95,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $88,125 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FIREHOUSE DREAM INC: $50,107 over 3y, 20% of budgetSELAH FREEDOM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE GROWING SEASON INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Service Mission Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMOD COLLECTIVE: $30,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetEDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSERGE GLOBAL INC: $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLUT1 Deficiency Foundation Inc: $26,327 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETTER FUTURE FORWARD INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLEGAL PREP CHARTER ACADEMIES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOasis Productions: $20,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetSARAH'S INN: $17,710 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTeamwork Englewood Inc: $17,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetARMENIAN RELIEF MISSION: $15,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds The Chicago Community Trust ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds TOGETHER CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE ON ONE ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
  • Who funds COLLABORACTION THEATRE CO ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
  • Who funds Garfield Park Rite to Wellness ↗
  • Who funds National Louis University ↗
  • Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds INHERENTANCE ↗
  • Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
  • Who funds The Foundation United ↗
  • Who funds THE FIELD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO SURVIVORS INC ↗
  • Who funds UCAN ↗
  • Who funds Institute for Nonviolence Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Elyssas Mission NFP ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEEONE ↗
  • Who funds Austin Coming Together ↗
  • Who funds Carole Robertson Center for Learning ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW HOPE COMMUNITY CAPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds RISE International ↗
  • Who funds MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds THE FIREHOUSE DREAM INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …Robert R McCormick Fo…Polk Bros Foundation …Circle of Service Fou…Arie and Ida Crown Me…United Way of Metropo…Lloyd a Fry FoundationCme Group FoundationForefrontBuilders Vision Found…Greater Chicago Food …
The Chicago Community TrustIL39.5× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Cme Group Foundation · Forefront · Builders Vision Foundation · Greater Chicago Food Depository

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marc and Jeanne Malnati Family Fdn Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marc and Jeanne Malnati Family Fdn Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 53%
  • Selah Freedom Inc: 53% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Marc and Jeanne Malnati Family Fdn Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 133 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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